Process of recovering waste paper.



UNITED srarss PATENT oFFIcn;

SAMUEL FINKELSTEIN, or HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

PRQCESS OF RECOVEZRING WASTE PAPEB.

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Recovering Waste Paper, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

- This invention relates to a process of recovering old printed paper, such as newspaper, saturated with ink, oil and other substances diliicult to remove.

So far as I am aware no way of treating old newspaper-paper, which has been printed upon-has been heretofore devised by which the ink, oil and other foreign substances contained therein may be removed to make a pulp stock of original or pristine whiteness. On this account Waste paper of this character has been used only for the production of common wrapping paper in which whiteness of color is not a material factor.

The object of my invention is to provide a process by which old printed paper may be reconverted into clear white pulp from which all the ink, oil, etc, have been removed, thus enabling the stock to be used again for the production of paper of the same degree of whiteness as the original.

In carrying my invention into practice, I first take the old into pulp, and then place it in a ath of boiling water for a period of about an hour, by w iich all the free oil, pigment and gummy matter is extracted therefrom and rises to the top of the bathin the form of scum which is removed. If desired, these first two steps may be simultaneously performed, that is to say, the stock may be ground while being boiled in the hot water bath. The pulp is then removed and placed in a. boiling hot bath of water, hyposulfite of soda and oil of vitriol, about four ounces of the hyposulfite of soda and one ounce of oil of vitriol being commonly used to each gallon of water. The action of this bath or solution extracts the remaining pigments and other foreign matter and bleaches the pulp to its original whiteness. An hours treatment in this bath is usually suificient for the purpose. The pulp is then washed in a bath of clear water and is ready for use as stoclcfor the production of news paperof the usual color and quality.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 15, 1909. Serial No. 483,550.

"and oil of vitriol, and then washi printed paperand grinddt discolored paper may be easily, N cheaply converted i nt;o;pul of first'tl'uality, thereby enabling pulp madg from waste paper of this character ordinarily used for the manufacture of low grade paper tobe employed for the production of paper of the same quality into which it was originally made.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new, is 1. The process of converting paper stock into clear pul of ori in color, which consists in firstr ucing t e stock to pulp, boiling the ulp in water, then boiling it in a solution 0 water, hyposulfite of soda 1g it in clear water.

Patented 0013. 1909.

By means of thisprotie ss old printed' and qu kly and aprinted I 2. The process of converting printed of original color,

paper into clear pul p the stock to pulp,

which consists in reducin then treating it in a bat jecting it to the action of a bleaching solution to remove the coloring matter, and then washing it in clear water.

3. The process of converting printed paper into clear pul of original color, which consists inre ucing the paper to pulp, boiling it in hot water to remove the gummy constituents, subjecting it to the ac-- tion of a boiling solution of water, hyposullite of soda and oil of vitriol, in the proper tions of four ounces of hyposulfite of soda and one ounce of oilof vitriol to each gallon of water, and then washing it in clear water. s

4. The process of converting printed paper into clear pulp of original color, which consists in reducing the paper to pulp, boiling the pulp in a hot water bath for a period of about one hour, bleaching the ,pulp in a of boilingwater to remove the gummy constituents, then subboiling solution of water, hyposulfite' of" soda and oil of vitriol in the proportions of four ounces of hyposulfite of soda and one ounce of oil of' vitriol to each gallon of water. for a period of about onehour, and then washing the pulp with clear water.

. In testimony whereof I aliix in presence of two witnesses.

SA MUEL FINKELSTEIN. Witnesses:

' C. C. HINES,

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